Education / Ethicist (Unemployed/Transient) — first generation, age 49

Deacon Elias Vance

Education / Ethicist (Unemployed/Transient) — first generation, age 49

Personality

Elias is highly intellectual and rhetorically brilliant, able to sway arguments with beautiful, melancholy language. His expertise lies in systems of belief and psychology, making him a manipulative presence.

Backstory

He spent years teaching the value of 'narrative stability' on the ship, helping to keep morale up during the darkest cycles. He excels at framing conflict as a matter of philosophical purity.

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Story Hook

He keeps a meticulously kept, non-essential journal filled with recorded phrases and philosophical arguments meant to destabilize the current council's consensus.